Best Drama movies of 1980s

Actors : Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan, Colin Firth, Liz Smith,
Directors : Martin Donovan,

Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane ...

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.

Actors : Alexandra Paul, Rae Dawn Chong, David Marshall Grant, Kevin Costner,
Directors : John Badham,

Sports physician Marcus persuades his unstable brother David to come with him and train for a bicycle race across the Rocky Mountains. Marcus doesn't tell David that he has a brain aneurysm...

Actors : Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Kenneth McMillan, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Actors : Robert Loggia, Harley Cross, Helen Shaver, Martin Sheen,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A New York psychiatrist finds that a satanic cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.

Actors : Dexter Gordon, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, François Cluzet,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

Actors : Julia McKenzie, Pauline Collins, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Steven Berkoff, Jerome Benton, Prince,

Two brothers from Miami are in the Mediterranean, enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50,000,000 from her father. At ...

Actors : Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson, Juliet Stevenson, Bernard Hill,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having ...

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, J.T. Walsh, Emily Longstreth,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.

Actors : John McIntire, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Alexa Kenin,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the ...

Actors : Keith Gordon, Richard Bradford, Helen Slater, Christian Slater,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Patrick O'Neal, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty ...

Actors : Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Victoria Tennant, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Jeffrey Bloom,

Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Actors : Patricia Charbonneau, Andra Akers, Audra Lindley, Helen Shaver,
Directors : Donna Deitch,

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Joel Brooks, John Ritter, Alyson Reed,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A womanizing, drunken, allelic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.

Actors : Eric Deacon, Brian Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Actors : Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear, Jack Wallace,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Actors : Piotr Machalica, Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting.